The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-05-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| Inc tTlaI OF "DOUIltT Jdhc Chdl
has begun in New York.
General Rosecrans has been appointed
by the president, chief Of the Pacific coast
survey.
Gov. Hill of New York has nominated
Col. Fred Grant for quarantine commits
| sioner of that state.
The California House at Spokane Falls,
Washington, was destroyed by fire Oh the
evening of the 18th.
Editor O 'Brien, of the United Ireland,
has been elected to Parliament to the great
dismay of Landsdowne.
The governor of Dakota will soon issue
a quarantine proclamation similar to that
issued by Governor Leslie.
Prince Leopold, great granddaughter of
Emperor William of Prussia, is sojourn-
ing in the United States.
About thirty houses IN the Chinese
quarters at San Francisco were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
General Boulanger has drafted bill for
the experimental mobilization of the
French army next year.
H. Hic, Japanese youth Of noble fam,
lily, has been admitted to our naval acad-
emy by Secretary Whitney.
Illinois has 634 labor unions of all sorts
with membership of 114,365, Or one in
every thirty of the population.
The cattle loss in the United States dur
ing the past winter is stated by the agri
cultural department to have been 1885,
O3O.
The outcome of the Paris municipal
elections was in favor of the communistic
classes, and there is much disquiet IN con-
sequence.
Swan Bros, the well-known stockmcn
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, have failed Liza
bilities 81, 100, 900; assets nominally about
the same.
Powdcrly wants the Kni ghts of Labor
to celebrate the Fourth of July, but says
they must exhibit no red flags in their
professions.
The whaling bark Europe, owned at
New Bedford, Mass, has been wrecked
off the Japan coast, the entire crew of
thirty two perisbing.
The government will purchase 224
acres Of land, two miles from Washing
ton, for on experimental farm for the ag-
ricultural department.
It is rumored that the Russians are col
lecting supplies at Chardqui, about 200
miles from the Afghan frontier, prepara-
tory to an advance on Kharnaib.
The New York Life Insurance company
will build at St. Paul structure that will
cost over a million dollars, to be used as
headquarters for northwestern business.
Queen Victoria has been presented with
a gold casket studded with South African
diamonds, and jeweled casque of native
African woods, by the Cape Colony people.
President Cleveland has appointed Col.
Wesley Merritt, superintendent of the
West Point military academy, to be brig
adler general, vice Gen. o. B. Wilcox, re-
tired.
The Sultan has just had the ladies of
the scraglio vaccinated, one physician at
tending, in the presence Of three stalwart
eunuchs to prevent recognition and CON-
munication.
J.N. Fairbanks of the Balcourt, B. c.,
municipality, has skipped to the United
States with over $4,000, receipts from the
sale of land for taxes. 1t is supposed he
is in St. Paul.
James Learney, New York lawyer. Is
in the tolls. He surrendered himself to
the authorities and plead not guilty to ex-
tensive folgeries aggregating $4,000 and
will he tried soon.
Madame Janauschek fell down a flight
of steps on the 18th, at Newport, injuring
herself so severely as to necessitate the
abandonment of all her engagements for
the present season.
A Cairo dispatch says the new conven-
ton between Great Britain and the porte
stipulates that the period of British occu-
patton of Egypt shall not be less than two
nor more than five years.
The office of Grand Chief Conductor of
the Order of Railroad Conductors has been
made salaried one, and the incumbent
will be required to devote his full time to
the interest of the association.
The financial secretary of India has dis
covered an immense treasure of $25, 900,
600. which had been secreted at the pal
ace of Circilion by the late Mahajarah,
which has been confiscated by the crown.
George E. Reed, ex-city treasurer of
Bismarck, Dakota, is among the missing,
and it is estimated that he is over $4, 900
short IN his accounts, and the last bond